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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2012 at 18:37
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:


Melt Banana (same as aboce, they're touring since the 90's).

I've been interested in checking them out - do you have a favorite album you'd recommend for starters?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2012 at 18:38
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

It's okay, most of us are failures.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2012 at 18:40
Dungen
Tame Impala
Which is kind of awkward seeing as one of these acts blatantly stole the other one's sound...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2012 at 18:53
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:


Melt Banana (same as aboce, they're touring since the 90's).

I've been interested in checking them out - do you have a favorite album you'd recommend for starters?


I know this isn't directed at me, but I'd personally suggest Cell-Scape and Speak Squeak Creak, the former probably being their most accessible.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2012 at 18:56
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:


Melt Banana (same as aboce, they're touring since the 90's).

I've been interested in checking them out - do you have a favorite album you'd recommend for starters?



To say the truth, I've been listening to them for... three months, maybe? So far, I've only listened to :
 - Cell-Scape (2003)
 - Bambi's Dilemma (2007).
 - Lite Live ver0.0 (2007)

i've been quite surprised: I was expecting something harsher, but an album like Bambi's Dilemma is close to some 90's punk-pop bands!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2012 at 20:03
Thanks both!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2012 at 20:05
Ooh, I forgot to mention Deerhoof.  I like them quite a bit.  They're on PA, but they have pretty low ratings so far.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2012 at 00:52
A few people have mentioned My Chemical Romance.  What are your thoughts on their 2010 release, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.  My only other MCR album is their debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, which I didn't like much on first listen, but grew to like it later.  (Only had that one for a couple of years.)  Anyway, I found Danger Days to be one of the most disappointing albums I've ever bought.  Very mediocre pop-rock songs that sound like they were written by a record producer, not a rock band.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2012 at 01:10
THE BLACK PARADE.

My favourite album ever, prog or not. It's just fantastic. I don't like anything else they've done, although the others have occasional good songs. Danger Days is my second favourite from them, but got bad on the second side.

The only thing bad about the Black Parade is Teenagers. Swap that with Heaven Help Us (a b-side) and it would have been perfection.

It's like epic and conceptual and quite dark in places. Call it emo if you want, but it's brilliant.

It's nothing like their first two albums by the way, much more melodic.


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http://thedarkthird.bandcamp.com/
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2012 at 16:16
My favorite albums from 1990 to Today (excluding ones listed on this site):


1990 - Lucifage - Danzig
1990 - Painkiller - Judas Priest
1990 - The Good Son - Nick Cave
1991 - Weld - Neil Young
1992 - Bone Machine - Tom Waits
1992 - Dirt - Alice in Chains
1993 - Tom Petty's Greatest Hits - Tom Petty
1994 - Dummy - Portishead
1994 - Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains
1994 - Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
1995 - Clouds Taste Metallica - The Flaming Lips
1996 - Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
1997 - Homogenic - Bjork
1997 - Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan
1997 - The Mollusk - Ween
1998 - Cowboy Bebop O.S.T. - The Seatbelts
1999 - The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
1999 - Summerteeth - Wilco
1999 - Mule Variations - Tom Waits
1999 - I See a Darkness - Will Oldham (as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
2000 - The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
2000 - White Pepper - Ween
2001 - Vespertine - Bjork
2002 - Alice - Tom Waits
2002 - American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
2004 - Real Gone - Tom Waits
2005 - I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnstons
2011 - Bad as Me - Tom Waits

The 1990's both opened and closed with very powerful years for me. So far I've been really disappointed in the 2000's. And, from 2005 to practically today, I've only found a couple albums I truly enjoy. That's my 'modern' list, rock or otherwise. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2012 at 18:05
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Ooh, I forgot to mention Deerhoof.  I like them quite a bit.  They're on PA, but they have pretty low ratings so far.

Deerhoof are awesome. I'm honestly surprised at how low their ratings are, but I guess I shouldn't be.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2012 at 18:09
Originally posted by Gallifrey Gallifrey wrote:


THE BLACK PARADE.
My favourite album ever, prog or not. It's just fantastic. I don't like anything else they've done, although the others have occasional good songs. Danger Days is my second favourite from them, but got bad on the second side.
The only thing bad about the Black Parade is Teenagers. Swap that with Heaven Help Us (a b-side) and it would have been perfection.
It's like epic and conceptual and quite dark in places. Call it emo if you want, but it's brilliant.
It's nothing like their first two albums by the way, much more melodic.



I think I would have to agree with you on that one
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 26 2012 at 18:58
Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

A few people have mentioned My Chemical Romance.  What are your thoughts on their 2010 release, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.  My only other MCR album is their debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, which I didn't like much on first listen, but grew to like it later.  (Only had that one for a couple of years.)  Anyway, I found Danger Days to be one of the most disappointing albums I've ever bought.  Very mediocre pop-rock songs that sound like they were written by a record producer, not a rock band.
Danger Days is okay, it's an album I'll blast out in the car on the way to and from work but rarely play at home. Its four or five good tunes are spread a little too thinly for a 15-track album but still fun to scream along with as I'm driving through town. The problem for home listening is the concept's storyline only exists off the record so it doesn't hang together like The Black Parade, which lessens the effect of listening to it as whole. The Black Parade just works - it's flawed but it works, and for that I wouldn't change a thing. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2012 at 21:38
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2012 at 05:33
When you say modern rock bands I am assuming ones post-2000 and not on PA.

I really got into the Arctic Monkey's first 3 albums.

Clever lyrics and mostly energetic and very, very catchy stuff. I was hooked.

Their 4th and current album however Suck it and See is a major disappointment IMHO.

They had the opportunity to "do a Radiohead" and go in a different direction but they just went backwards on this release.

Here's hoping their next album is different....and as good as the first 3.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2012 at 07:23
Favorite non-prog rock bands still around today:
 
Foo Fighters
Deftones
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
Alice In Chains
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Jane's Addiction
Rage Against The Machine
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2012 at 08:38
Although they are known all over the world, i just returned to hear them again and i am thrilled.
Jane's Addiction.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2012 at 15:22
Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Also, I love Alice in Chains.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2012 at 15:30
The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., The Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Nirvana, Black Mountain. I realize some of the bands in my list are considered Prog Related or Crossover, but whatever.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2012 at 04:42
I'm surprised no one has mentioned System Of A Down yet - a great live band too.
 
 
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